The best Billy Wayne’s crime movies

Billy Wayne

Billy Wayne

12/02/1897- 12/06/1970
We present our ranking of the best Billy Wayne’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Billy Wayne.
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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
8.2/10
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

Fury

Fury
7.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 05/06/1936
  • Character: Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 28/10/1939
  • Character: Cabbie at Grand Central (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night
7.2/10
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

City for Conquest

City for Conquest
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMusic
  • Release: 21/09/1940
  • Character: Happy - Googi's Henchman (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

The Gun Runners

The Gun Runners
6.3/10
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.

Undertow

Undertow
6.5/10
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 10/04/1937
  • Character: 2nd Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Black Legion

Black Legion
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/01/1937
  • Character: Jim - Diner Counterman (uncredited)
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Out of the Fog

Out of the Fog
6.8/10
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 19/10/1935
  • Character: Dave - a Townsman
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.

Let Us Live

Let Us Live
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 29/03/1939
  • Character: Theatre Hold-Up Witness (uncredited)
In Springdale, a small town near New York, taxi driver Brick Tennant and his friend Joe Linden are unjustly accused of a hideous crime and blindly convicted by those who are only interested in feeding the voracious machinery of an inhumane justice system.

Angels Over Broadway

Angels Over Broadway
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/10/1940
  • Character: Second Cabby (uncredited)
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.

One Wild Night

One Wild Night
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/06/1938
  • Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.

Castle on the Hudson

Castle on the Hudson
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/02/1940
  • Character: Pete
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

Flaming Fury

Flaming Fury
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/07/1949
  • Character: Sgt. 'Berk' Berkeley
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.

The Jury's Secret

The Jury's Secret
6.4/10
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.

State Police

State Police
6.1/10
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

City of Chance

City of Chance
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/01/1940
  • Character: Billy - Bartender
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

Man Hunt

Man Hunt
5.5/10
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

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